How to search (using find command) for directories and copy all the files and directory itself to another directory in linux? Here is what I have so far:
find -type d -name "*.ABC" -exec {} /Desktop/NewFile \;
I get this as output:
find: './GAE/.ABC: PERMISSION DENIED
Please Help, Thanks!
Santiago Trujillo
Your error here above has nothing to do with file read permission. You're trying to execute the directories you find! Avoid running commands as root or sudo unless: (1) you really need it and (2) you really know what you're doing. Quite often people asking for root or sudo privileges are exactly the ones should not have it.
That said... there are several ways to copy a directory tree under *nix. This is just one possible approach:
$ find <start> -type d -name \*.ABC -exec cp -av {} <target> \;
Where:
<start> is a directory name. It's used to tell find where to start its search (for example /usr/local or $HOME)<target> is another directory name to define the final destination of your copied directoriesUPDATE
In case you want to search for multiple paths...
$ find <start> -type d \( -name \*.ABC -o -name \*.DEF \) -exec cp -av {} <target> \;